What are the exact versions of the toolsets that you are comparing? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of SteveKing Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 01:52 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] size of msi 20% bigger with wix3 than with wix2
-------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 01:08:53 -0700 > Von: Rob Mensching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > An: "Stefan Küng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net" > <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Betreff: RE: [WiX-users] size of msi 20% bigger with wix3 than with wix2 > Have you played with the Media/@CompressionLevel at all? I'm not sure > what all the defaults were but it is possible WiX v2 as doing "high" > compression at one point in time and v3 is doing "mszip" or something like > that. The Media/@CompressionLevel is set to "high". I haven't changed that setting when I moved from wix2 to wix3. I tried other settings (none, mszip, ...) but those were even worse than "high". > Otherwise... there could be something more subtle going on and it would be > great if you can help us get to the bottom of it. I tried the '-cc' param in light so I would get the cab file directly without having to extract it again from the resulting msi. And it is really the cab file which is 1.6MB bigger with wix3 than with wix2. I browsed through the sourcecode of wix. The only thing I could see that might have any influence on the cab size would be that in wix3, the files are added to the cab file in a different order. If I understand the code correctly, wix2 would add the files as it 'finds' them, i.e. according to the wxs files. Wix3 however seems to first add them to a sorted list and then later add them in one step but sorted by filename. Could that have such an influence on the resulting cab size? If that's not the problem, I could prepare both cab files and upload them to a server. Not sure if that would help though. Stefan -- GMX FreeMail: 1 GB Postfach, 5 E-Mail-Adressen, 10 Free SMS. Alle Infos und kostenlose Anmeldung: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freemail ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
